BTS’s Jungkook has propelled a rookie female artist into the limelight with his extraordinary praise for her on social media.
Recently, the BTS maknae took to social media and shared a song titled “Typical” by singer-songwriter Neu. In the caption, he expressed his bewilderment at the singer’s skills, showering her with high
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Jungkook story:
So you can catch two rabbits at once after all*. This is what May is all about. What is this voice? What is this emotion? What is this pronunciation? And what even are you?
✒️ * Korean idiom expressing how you can achieve two thing at the same time… pic.twitter.com/jqKo0vsmEF
— BTS Updates & Translations (@dalbitbangtan) April 29, 2026
With this single post, Neu was suddenly at the top of Melon’s real-time search rankings. As public interest in the singer surged, fans were left surprised at just how obscure she was before Jungkook posted about her. Neu made her debut just three months ago with the single, “Young Love,” and had less than 15,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
she debuted 3 months ago and has less than 15k monthly listeners……. https://t.co/0NR556Rnl9 pic.twitter.com/t2VujdNDoF
— robin (@taekooklore) April 29, 2026
The singer herself responded to Jungkook, thanking him for the shout out and expressing that she was “flustered” by the sudden attention.
정국님 감사합니다💜#당황🥺 pic.twitter.com/fU6YUrSgFF
— neu.official (@neu_official_jp) April 29, 2026
neu’s reaction to jungkook’s story 🐰
👩: this..what is this..?
👩: th-tht-t-th-thh-thank you 🙇🏻♀️!
👩: jungkook-nim thank you 💜 #flustered 🥺 pic.twitter.com/JnlUpxKSb4
— tim ⁷ 🪭 (@sexykoomi) April 29, 2026
You can check out Neu’s music right here: